I spent a good chunk of my youth as a Jehovah’s Witness. I don’t talk or write about very often, because I don’t get into personal stuff on the site, at least not anymore (mocking sportswriters leaves me little time for navel gazing). I honestly don’t think about it too often, until I have to tell someone that I didn’t “do” certain things as a kid, and explain why. Only in those moments does it occur to me, “Oh yeah, that was really weird, wasn’t it?” Like I’m remembering that one year I was really into INXS.
But this time of year, it’s nearly impossible to not think of my more pious youth. Because Witnesses really do believe in ghosts and demons and pure, Satanic evil in a way that few other people do outside of the Black Metal community. I wrote all about this in a Halloween post from way back in 2006, which you can peep after the jump. Original post here.
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